David DuChemin
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English
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The creative life used to be the domain of the muses, those astonishing Greek Goddesses responsible for inspiration and creativity. If they showed up, our work in these areas would go well, ideas would flow, and creativity would abound. Lucky us. But, what if they didn't?
The Problem with Muses, one of 28-essays on the creative life, from which this book gets its name, is that we could wait forever for them to appear (there were only nine of them!),...
Author
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English
Description
The poet Goethe is credited as saying, "What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it, and the work will be completed!"
If only it were that easy.
In any creative effort, the beginning is the hard part, filled with fears and procrastinations, and-often most of all-the paralyzing desire to get it right on the first try (which almost never happens). Creativity is evolutionary; it begins...